Flexible Aircraft Modeling for Aeroelastic Analysis and Simulation
- Project: High-Order FSI for Large-Deformation Aeroelastic Simulations
- Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
- Researcher: Braden Frigoletto
- Project: Whirl Flutter and Stability Analysis for Advanced VTOL Concepts
- Sponsor: Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE)
- Researcher: Jasmine Chang
- Project: Supersonic Configurations at Low Speeds
- Sponsor: NASA
- Researchers: Bernardo Bahia Monteiro, Divya Sanghi, Thiago Augusto Machado Guimarães
Control Development for Very Flexible Aircraft
- Project: Model Predictive Control for Very Flexible Aircraft Considering Maneuver Load Alleviation and Gust Load Alleviation Systems
- Sponsor: Brazilian Air Force (FAB)
- Researcher: João de Barro Monteiro Cavalcanti
Optimization of Flexible Aircraft
- Project: Aeroservoelasticity and Optimization of Highly Flexible Aircraft in Free-Flight
- Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
- Researcher: Patrizio Rosatelli
Experimental Aeroelasticity of Flexible Aircraft
- Project: Autonomous UAV for Large-area Crop Monitoring:
Aeroelastic Analysis and Experiments - Sponsor: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Foundation
- Researcher: Bilal Sharqi
Past Projects
Flexible Aircraft Modeling for Aeroelastic Analysis and Simulation
- Project: Folding Wingtip Freeplay and its Effects on Limit Cycle Oscillations of Flexible Wings
- Sponsor: São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
- Researcher: Larissa Drews Wayhs Lopes
- Project: Geometrically Nonlinear Effects and Dynamic Aeroelasticity in Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
- Sponsor: Airbus-Michigan Center for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft (CASE-VFA)
- Researcher: Cristina Riso
- Project: Output-Based CFD Model Reduction with Error Estimation
- Sponsor: Airbus-Michigan Center for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft (CASE-VFA)
- Researcher: Qingzhao Wang
- Project: Including Dynamic Aeroelasticity into the Design Process
- Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
- Researcher: Christopher Lupp
- Project: Modeling Flight Dynamics of Flexible Aircraft and Control Design
- Sponsor: Airbus-Michigan Center for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft (CASE-VFA)
- Researcher: Guillaume Dematté
- Project: Efficient aerodynamic modeling for aeroelastic analysis of very flexible wings
- Sponsor: CNPq
- Researcher: Patricia C. Teixeira
- Project: Aeroelastic Analysis of Very Flexible Aircraft using Nonlinear Modes
- Sponsor: CNPq
- Researcher: Renato Medeiros
Control Development for Very Flexible Aircraft
- Project: Control and Model Order Reduction for Very Flexible Aircraft
- Sponsor: Airbus-Michigan Center for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft (CASE-VFA)
- Researcher: Maxime Feingesicht
- Project: Nonlinear Control Development for Maneuver and Gust Load Alleviation for Very Flexible Aircraft
- Sponsor: Airbus-Michigan Center for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft (CASE-VFA)
- Researcher: Mateus de Freitas Virgílio Pereira
- Project: Top-to-Bottom Model Reduction for Control Design
- Sponsor: Airbus-Michigan Center for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft (CASE-VFA)
- Researcher: Manuel Lanchares Prieto
Aerolastic Tailoring for Flexible Aircraft
- Project: Passive Aeroelastic Tailoring of Transport Aircraft
- Sponsor: NASA, Aurora Flight Sciences
- Researcher(s): Christopher Lupp
- Project: Materials and Structural Concepts for Aeroelastically-Tailored Aircraft Wings (ATWIST)
- Sponsor: NASA, Aurora Flight Sciences
- Researcher(s): Pinar Acar
- Project: Aeroelastic Tailoring of Very Flexible High Aspect Ratio Wings
- Sponsor: Technische Universität Berlin
- Researcher(s): Christopher Lupp
Experimental Aeroelasticity of Flexible Aircraft
- Project: Experimental Aeroservoelasticity
- Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
- Researcher: Thiago Versiani
- Project: X-HALE: Flight Testing for Control Development
- Sponsor: A2SRL
- Researcher: John Hansen, Maj. USAF
- Project: Small Testbed Development to Study Aeroelastic Effects in Large Solar Powered Airplanes
- Sponsors: Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS), AeroVironment Inc., Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation and Facebook Inc.
- Researcher: Pedro Jose Gonzalez Ramirez
- Project: X-HALE: Flight Testing A Very Flexible UAV for Aeroelastic Tests
- Sponsor: A2SRL
- Researcher(s): Jessica Jones
- Project: X-HALE: Instrumenting A Very Flexible UAV for Aeroelastic Tests
- Sponsor: A2SRL
- Researcher(s): Zi Yang Pang
- Project: X-HALE: Designing A Very Flexible UAV for Aeroelastic Tests
- Sponsor: AFRL
- Researcher(s): Patrick Senatore
Blake Davis
Elizabeth Prentice
Computational Aeroelasticity of Flexible Aircraft
- Project: FEM-based Aeroelastic Modeling of Very Flexible Aircraft
- Sponsor: Sapienza – Università di Roma (Sapienza University of Rome)
- Researcher(s): Cristina Riso
- Project: Aeroelastic Simulation of N+3 Aircraft
- Sponsor: NASA
- Researcher(s): Ryan Kitson
- Project: High-Fidelity Aeroelastic Simulation
- Sponsor: AFRL/RB
- Researcher(s): Ben Hallissy
Gust Load Alleviation
- Project: Gust Load Alleviation for Highly Flexible Aircraft
- Sponsor: USAF
- Researcher(s): Matt Dillsaver
Flapping Wing MAVs
- Project: Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles
- Sponsor: AFOSR-MURI
- Researcher(s): Weihua Su